Adding images is key to a good wiki. Here's how to add images easily AND ethically to your site.
1. Find your images and save them to your computer (I usually use my desktop, and delete them after I'm done 2. Use COPYRIGHT FREE images: the safest place to go for these is Creative Commons. Click on the image below to go there.
Go to this page on the Ludlow Elementary Library Wiki for more ideas about where to find pictures you can use. 3. Once you have the image you want to use, decide where it will live on your page (This is where TABLES can be useful. Images tend to shift around. 4. Click on the INSERT IMAGES AND FILES button on the toolbar:
This box will come up. Click on UPLOAD FILE.
Choose where you have your file (documents, uploads, desktop...), Highlight it in your search box and upload it.
Once it is finished uploading, you will see it as a choice in the box - >. Double-click on it and it will show up wherever your cursor was on your page.
5. When you have the image you want on the page, it comes connected with it's own toolbar. Here you can make your image bigger or smaller, and choose where it will sit on your page.You can even add a LINK to your image!
6. Click on PREVIEW to see how it looks, and the SAVE your page.
Adding images
Adding images is key to a good wiki.
Here's how to add images easily AND ethically to your site.
1. Find your images and save them to your computer (I usually use my desktop, and delete them after I'm done
2. Use COPYRIGHT FREE images: the safest place to go for these is Creative Commons. Click on the image below to go there.
Go to this page on the Ludlow Elementary Library Wiki for more ideas about where to find pictures you can use.
3. Once you have the image you want to use, decide where it will live on your page (This is where TABLES can be useful. Images tend to shift around.
4. Click on the INSERT IMAGES AND FILES button on the toolbar:
Choose where you have your file (documents, uploads, desktop...),
Highlight it in your search box and upload it.
Once it is finished uploading, you will see it as a choice in the box - >.
Double-click on it and it will show up wherever your cursor was on your page.
6. Click on PREVIEW to see how it looks, and the SAVE your page.